Capital Community College

HARTFORD — With a serene smile and the sweetness of a kindly neighbor, 19-year-old Ma Nwe showed an instructional clock to four older adults learning English in the Hartford Public Library.

"Twenty-five past. Good!" Nwe told one student with the correct English vernacular. Later, she explained the difference between "gun" — quickly clasping her hands like a pistol — and "gone" to her pupils from Puerto Rico and Somalia.

"We're all smiling, they're good learners," said Nwe, an immigrant of Karen ethnicity who came to Hartford from a Thai refugee camp in 2010. "I'm happy to teach them. ... If I know English, I want to share with...

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